"Dutch"

Tony Snow had to qualify himself after using that expression a couple of weeks ago, so it's no surprise the Boston-based media following Romney would jump on him about its use here.

Now if the governor says there's a black cloud hanging over the Big Dig project, and they go after him for that, then I presume they'd also have to charge Gaia herself was racism for making severe thunderstorms dark in color.

"I whine, therefore I am right."

Please.

Language must change to prevent bad thoughts. This is doubleplusgood. Uncle Remus is ungood.

Recall the recent story from England where "Baa Baa Black Sheep" was being changed to "Baa Baa Rainbow Sheep" in order to avoid offending...well, someone or other.

This sort of blackguardry is demeaning to those of African or partial African descent. Those who advance it appear as either thin-skinned neurotics or cynical bullies.

Why doesn't anybody stand up to this sort of PC bullying? The first guy who responds with something along the lines of, "No, I can't apologize--I meant no offense by that phrase, and I can't imagine anyone outside of a press who wishes to gin up controversy where none exists actually would be offended", jumps to the number one spot in a presidential campaign, it would seem.

My blood pressure rises every time I hear political types talk about "whitewashes." And don't get me started on the weatherman callously referring to "whiteouts" during the winter.

Rick: That't the problem, don't you see. This sort of thing is a surrender to racist assumptions. We do not talk this way too much in public now, but the linguistic residues persist.

Light and whiteness are associated with excellence and purity. What is more, favorable associations attach to whiteness as a matter of race, as in "That's White of you," or "Act like a White man." Honestly, now, who considers whiteness a slur?

Thus exaggerated sensitivity to such speech is an ongoing admission of sense of infertiority and ressentment.

Niggardly.